Artifact Details

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Type

Date

Contributor

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Identifying Numbers

Other number

OHP 088

Extent

56 p.

Description

In 1959, MIT freshmen Alan Kotok, Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Michael Lieberman, Charles Niessen, and Robert A. Wagner started working on a chess-playing program based on research by artificial intelligence pioneer professor John McCarthy. By the time they had graduated in 1962, the program could beat amateurs.